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B. Verbs.
1.
$ $
(
$ "
, 2961) denotes “to be lord of, to exercise lordship over,” Luke
22:25; Rom. 6:9, 14; 7:1; 14:9; 2 Cor. 1:24; 1 Tim. 6:15; see
DOMINION
, B, No. 1.¶
2.
$ $
(
$ "
, 2634), a strengthened form of No. 1, is rendered
“lording it” in 1 Pet. 5:3,
RV
: see
DOMINION
, B, No. 2.
C. Adjective.
$
(
$
, 2960), from
$
(A, No. 1), signifies “pertaining to a lord or
master”; “lordly” is not a legitimate rendering for its use in the NT, where it is used only
of Christ; in 1 Cor. 11:20, of the Lord’s Supper, or the Supper of the Lord (see
FEAST
); in
Rev. 1:10, of the Day of the Lord (see
DAY
, No. 1).¶
LOSE, (suffer) LOSS, LOST
1.
$
(
, 622) signifies (I) In the active voice, (a) “to destroy, destroy
utterly, kill,” e.g., Matt. 10:28; Mark 1:24; 9:22; (b) “to lose utterly,” e.g., Matt. 10:42, of
“losing” a reward; Luke 15:4 (1st part), of “losing” a sheep; Luke 9:25, of “losing”
oneself (of the “loss” of well-being hereafter); metaphorically, John 6:39, of failing to
save; 18:9, of Christ’s not “losing” His own; (II), in the middle voice (a) “to perish,” of
things, e.g., John 6:12 “(that nothing) be lost”; of persons, e.g., Matt. 8:25, “we perish;”
of the “loss” of eternal life, usually (always in the
RV
) translated to perish, John 3:16;
17:12,
KJV
, “is lost,”
RV
, “perished”; 2 Cor. 4:3, “are perishing,”
KJV
, “are lost” (see
PERISH
); (b) “to be lost,” e.g., Luke 15:4 (2nd part), “which is lost”; metaphorically, from
the relation between shepherd and flock, of spiritual destitution and alienation from God,
Matt. 10:6, “(the) lost (sheep)” of the house of Israel; Luke 19:10 (the perfect tense
translated “lost” is here intransitive). See
DESTROY
.
2.
(
, 2210), “to damage” (akin to
, “damage,” e.g., Acts 27:10,
21), is used in the NT, in the passive voice, signifying “to suffer loss, forfeit, lose,” Matt.
16:26; Mark 8:36, of losing one’s soul or life; Luke 9:25,
RV
, “forfeit (his own self),”
KJV
, “be cast away” (for the preceding verb see No. 1); 1 Cor. 3:15, “he shall suffer loss,”
i.e., at the Judgment-Seat of Christ (see v. 13 with 2 Cor. 5:10); 2 Cor. 7:9, “(that) ye
might suffer loss,”
RV
(
KJV
, “might receive damage”); though the apostle did regret the
necessity of making them sorry by his letter, he rejoiced that they were made sorry after a
godly sort, and that they thus suffered no spiritual loss, which they would have done had
their sorrow been otherwise than after a godly manner; in Phil. 3:8, “I suffered the loss
(of all things),”
RV
, i.e., of all things which he formerly counted gain (especially those in
verses 5 and 6, to which the article before “all things” points). See
CAST
,
FORFEIT
.¶
LOSS
1.
(
&
, 2209), akin to No. 2, above, is used in Acts 27:10,
RV
, “loss” (
KJV
,
“damage”); v. 21,
KJV
and
RV
, “loss,” of ship and cargo; in Phil. 3:7, 8 of the apostle’s
estimate of the things which he formerly valued, and of all things on account of “the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.Ӧ
** Differing gender, number, or verb forms (for instance, infinitive or participle) of other
words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a double asterisk (for instance,
, from
, is 3798**).